vCloud Director

VMware vCloud Director enables service providers to build differentiated cloud services that are inherently hybrid-aware and ideal for enterprise-class organizations. It is available through the vCloud Air Network Program.

What vCloud Director Does

Delivers Virtual Data Centers in Minutes

vCloud Director orchestrates the provisioning of software-defined data center (SDDC) services as complete virtual data centers that are ready for consumption in minutes.

Delivers Multi-Tenancy Platform

You can reduce operational costs by using a single platform to host secure virtual data centers that could be consumed by multiple tenants using Role-Based Access Control.

Automates Data Center Services

Applies pooling, abstraction and automation to data center services such as storage, networking, and security. As a result, you can provision complete and operationally ready infrastructure without worrying about the physical configuration of hardware.

Supports Open APIs

Allows scripted access to consume cloud resources, such as vApp upload/download, catalog management and other operations. Using REST-based APIs and SDKs, service providers can extend the capabilities of vCloud Director and create differentiation.

Enforces Security and Enables Efficient Resource Consumption

vCloud Director takes a policy-driven approach to provisioning that embeds software-defined resource consumption controls, so you can automatically enforce preconfigured IT policies.

Provides Application Catalog Services

Catalogs can be used to publish virtual appliances and media files across a single tenant or multiple tenants.

SPOTLIGHT

VMware vCloud Director orchestrates the provisioning of public and hybrid cloud services to deliver complete virtual data centers for easy consumption in minutes.

Simple Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service

vCloud Availability for vCloud Director makes it easy for service providers to run a disaster-recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) offering that is natively compatible with their customer’s vSphere environment.

vCloud Director 8.10 Now Available

FEATURES

Complete Software-Defined Services as Virtual Data Centers

Virtual data centers provide virtualized compute, networking, storage and security that can be provisioned to make relevant workloads operational in minutes.

Virtual Data Centers

Provision complete sets of software-defined services that include compute, storage and networking capacity. Apply the principles of pooling, abstraction and automation and enable complete separation between the consumption of infrastructure services and the underlying hardware.

Efficient Resource Allocation

Automatically place applications in optimal VMware vCenter Server clusters, alleviating IT overhead around balancing server capacity. Define how virtual data center resources are consumed by different teams and organizations.

Robust Multi-tenancy

Categorize users into organizations that can represent any policy group, such as a business unit, division, or company. Each will have isolated virtual resources, independent role based authentication and specific policy controls. These features enable secure multi-tenancy and safe sharing of infrastructure resources.

Fast Provisioning

vCloud Director enables service providers to provision operationally ready infrastructure without worrying about the underlying physical configuration of hardware.

Role-based Access Control

Authorize consumption using a model that enables different users to have different levels of functional access within vCloud Director. Set quotas, leases and limits to prevent consumption from exceeding prescribed boundaries.